Princess of the Sea - Artist ID

[hlock]

I was really impressed by the story "Princess of the Sea" in Weird Thrillers 3 and reprinted in Nightmare 13. I want to find more stories by the artist, but there is conflicting info from the GCD and stuff inside the archives available on this site. Here's the all the info:

GCD:
Weird Thrillers #3
Pencils:
    Dan Barry ?
Inks:
    Dan Barry ?; Frank Giacoia ?

Nightmare #13
Pencils:
    Dan Barry
Inks:
    Frank Giacoia

Weird Romance #1  (reprint)
Pencils:
    Dan Barry; Sy Barry; Miyako Graham (art touch-up)
Inks:
    Dan Barry; Sy Barry; Miyako Graham (art touch-up)

Inside Weird Thrillers 3 on index card it says Sy & Dan Barry & Giacoia.

Nightmare 13 scan says Bob Powell.


Does anyone know who the artist(s) is/are with any certainty?

[NobbyNobbs]

Why not look up a few stories by Dan and Sy Barry to check, their artstyles usually are among the easy ones to recognise.

[JVJ (RIP)]

It's Dan and Sy Barry with (probably - denoted by being in pencil on the index card) inks by Frank Giacoia.

The "Miyako Graham" credit applies only to touch-ups for the reprint.

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ps. you won't find too many other Dan and/or Sy Barry stories of this quality simply because no one was paying as much as Ziff-Davis did and EVERYONE in the business wanted a seat at the table. They did their best and then some. Alas, the profits weren't there and Ziff quickly sold out to St. John and stopped all their comics except G.I. Joe and certainly stopped paying top dollar.

[hlock]

JVJ, thank you for taking the time to answer, the ps is especially helpful.

Too bad though, I was hoping for at least 30 or 40 more stories with art equivalent to this story. I found only 2 more stories listed on GCD by Sy and/or Dan Barry in Ziff-Davis comics. I glanced at them and they don't give me that same buzz that this one does. I'm planning to checkout other Ziff-Davis stuff looking for some other hidden gems.

The art in "Princess of the Sea" seems very Alex Raymond-like to me. I even quickly perused his Flash Gordon Sundays looking for swipes. Didn't find any.

Again thanks for the help.

[NobbyNobbs]

A Dan Barry story looking like Flash Gordon, who would have guessed that  

edit:
Sorry for the silly answer, but being scandinavian, where The Phantom is "the" superhero, the fact that Sy Barry worked as his brothers asistant on Flash Gordon before taking over as the artist on the Phantom is something everybody interested in comics know, while few are able to name any other Flash Gordon artist.

[hlock]

A Dan Barry story looking like Flash Gordon, who would have guessed that 

Just for the record, I knew that Dan Barry was a long running Flash artist. But I was not at all familiar with the work. Flash was never carried in any of the papers close to where I lived. But before I posted I did do a small amount of research on Dan Barry's strips.

The funny thing is that all the samples of Dan Barry's Flash that I've seen look nothing like Alex Raymond's Flash to my eyes.

[BobS]

A Dan Barry story looking like Flash Gordon, who would have guessed that 

Just for the record, I knew that Dan Barry was a long running Flash artist. But I was not at all familiar with the work. Flash was never carried in any of the papers close to where I lived. But before I posted I did do a small amount of research on Dan Barry's strips.

The funny thing is that all the samples of Dan Barry's Flash that I've seen look nothing like Alex Raymond's Flash to my eyes.

The Austin Briggs Flash Gordon art only superficially looks like Alex Raymond art.

The Mack Raboy Flash Gordon art looks little like Alex Raymond art.

(I have an original Mack Raboy Flash Gordon page I'd like to sell or trade by the way. Is it OK for me to say so here?)

[John C]

Especially in passing and in context, nobody's going to mind, Bob.  Anybody interested should contact him directly, though, and not in the thread.

[BobS]

Especially in passing and in context, nobody's going to mind, Bob.  Anybody interested should contact him directly, though, and not in the thread.

Thanks, John.

[JVJ (RIP)]

If you're going to be telling people about it, Bob,
it would probably be best to spell his first name "Mac" which is how he spelled it.

FWIW.

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[BobS]

If you're going to be telling people about it, Bob,
it would probably be best to spell his first name "Mac" which is how he spelled it.

FWIW.

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You're right.
My son is Mack (McKenzie).

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